The Boiling Point of a Self-Made Man

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The question was never whether Jeremiah Ashford would break. The question was when, and at what temperature, and into what new substance he would be transformed when the pressure finally exceeded the vessel's tolerance. He was fifty-three years old in the winter of 1883, and he had been boiling for decades without anyone noticing. He had come to New York in 1856 with seventeen dollars and a...

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